Netflix and Aziz

Netflix has seen enormously positive returns on some of its edgier material including the gender and sexuality bending Orange Is the New Black, the too-dark-for-NBC comedy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and the pitch-black Marvel installment Daredevil. So it shouldn’t be any surprise that when they joined forces with comedian Aziz Ansari, Netflix would help develop a series that is several fathoms deeper than anything we’ve seen from Ansari in the past. Pulled from the comedian’s own stand-up, life experience, and interests, Master of None stars Ansari as Dev, a New York–based actor grappling with race, commitment, and technology. Think Louie but with a millennial twist. (Anyone who follows Ansari on social media knows that posting-photos-of-food bit is lifted directly from his life.) Master of None will premiere 10 half-hour episodes on November 6.